EDUCATION

2000-2002  Master of Arts (Hons) University of Western Sydney

1999-2001   Historical Techniques of Oil Painting, Charlie Sheard Studio School, Syd

1994-1995    BA Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney

1988              Grad. Dip. Arts, City Art Institute, Sydney (COFA, University of NSW)

1984-1987     BA Visual Arts, City Art Institute, Sydney (COFA, University of NSW)

COLLABORATIONS

2024 Funded research to study and respond to the Tyler Collection of Romanian art, University of Tasmania, Hobart

2023              Glitch with Naomi Oliver at Woollahra Gallery, Sydney

2022              Glitch with Naomi Oliver at M16 Artspace, Canberra

2022 Contributor to May Their Memory Be a Blessing, Anne Zahalka’s Holocaust memorial work for Hidden, Rookwood cemetery, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Tyler Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart

2012            Big, bold & beautiful  Ray Hughes Gallery

                     Opportunity knocks, Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW

2011            Dreams are made of this, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW

2007           Toyota go anywhere, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale NSW

                     Home sweet home, Studio Foyer, Sydney Opera House

2002           Postcards, Sydney Jewish Museum

2000           Stilled life, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University

                     Wandering Why, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne

1998            Wander, First Draft Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Blot, Articulate Project space, Sydney

2014             Is it a plane, is it a bird…Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

2013:            Story Lewers Bequest, Penrith Regional Gallery

                      It’s a small world, Port Macquarie Glasshouse Regional Gallery

2012:            Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney

                       Drawn Apart, Paper Plane Gallery, Rozelle

2008:            Salon des Refuses, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney

                       Public sculpture, Utopia Art, Sydney

2006:            Inspiration, National Art Glass Gallery, Wagga Wagga

2005:            Willoughby Art Prize, Chatswood Civic Centre

2004:            From This Place, Cowra Art Gallery

2003:            Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW

2002             CROSSROADS: Shanghai and the Jews of China, The Performance                                      Space, Sydney Jewish Museum, Carnivale + Trans/Forming Cultures,

UTS, Maritime Museum, Sydney

1996, 95, 93, 89, 88: Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery

1988:              Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW.

AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2024 Vatra Dornei artist residency, Bukovina, Romania

2005             Willoughby Art Prize

2002             University of Western Sydney Masters Research Grant

2000            Martha Ash Award, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne

                      Carnivale, NSW Ministry for the Arts,  Artists grant NAVA

1990            Residency at Cite International des Arts, Paris, Art Gallery of NSW.

1988            National Student Art Award, Charles Sturt University.